dominant

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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Middle French dominant.

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Noun

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dominant (plural dominants)

  1. (music) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
  2. (music) The triad built on the dominant tone.
  3. (genetics) Of an allele, that a heterozygote for the allele has the same phenotype as the homozygote.
    • 1930, R. A. Fisher, J. H. Bennett, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, page 50:
      Finally, if we suppose provisionally that the mutant genes are dominant just as often as they are recessive, selection will be far more severe in eliminating the disadvantageous dominants than in eliminating the disadvantageous recessives.
  4. A species or organism that is dominant.
    • 1966, John R. Bassett, Thinning loblolly pine from above and below, New Orleans, La: Southern Forest Experiment Station:
      Landowners cannot afford to cut submerchantable trees, yet many hesitate to cut merchantable dominants and codominants at the risk of downgrading the residual stand.
  5. (BDSM) The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
    Hyponym: dominatrix
    • 1988 December 25, Wickie Stamps, “Leather, Peace and Wombyn over Forty”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 7:
      This calendar is not for the faint of heart (unless you have some strong butch dominant to hold you while you swoon)
    • 2011, Jayne Rylon, Mistress's Master, page 65:
      His story was a fable you told dominants in training to stress the importance of comprehending the depths of your submissive's needs.

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Descendants

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  • Polish: dominant

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Adjective

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dominant (comparative more dominant, superlative most dominant)

  1. Ruling; governing; prevailing
    The dominant party controlled the government.
  2. Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.
    The dominant plants of the Carboniferous were lycopods and early conifers.
    • 2009, H. Stephen Stoker, General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry, page 10:
      All other elements are mere "impurities" when their abundances are compared with those of these two dominant elements.
    • 2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 38:
      It's the water that makes this area famous. [] That water is still being used to supply Blackford's two dominant industries, Tullibardine whisky distillery to the south of the village and, more significantly, Highland Spring Group's bottling plant to the north.
  3. (of a body part) Preferred and used with greater dexterity than the other, as the right hand of a right-handed person or the left hand of a left-handed one.
  4. (medicine) Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation.
  5. (music) Being the dominant
    Dominant seventh

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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dominant m or f (masculine and feminine plural dominants)

  1. dominant, ruling
  2. (music) dominant
  3. (genetics) dominant

Etymology 2

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Verb

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dominant

  1. gerund of dominar

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French dominant, from Middle French dominant.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌdoː.miˈnɑnt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: do‧mi‧nant
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt

Adjective

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dominant (comparative dominanter, superlative dominantst)

  1. dominant
    Synonym: overheersend
  2. (genetics) dominant

Declension

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Declension of dominant
uninflected dominant
inflected dominante
comparative dominanter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial dominant dominanter het dominantst
het dominantste
indefinite m./f. sing. dominante dominantere dominantste
n. sing. dominant dominanter dominantste
plural dominante dominantere dominantste
definite dominante dominantere dominantste
partitive dominants dominanters

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French

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Pronunciation

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Participle

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dominant

  1. present participle of dominer

Adjective

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dominant (feminine dominante, masculine plural dominants, feminine plural dominantes)

  1. dominant

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Further reading

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German

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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dominant (strong nominative masculine singular dominanter, comparative dominanter, superlative am dominantesten)

  1. dominant

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Further reading

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  • dominant” in Duden online
  • dominant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dɔˈmi.nant/
  • Rhymes: -inant
  • Syllabification: do‧mi‧nant

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English dominant.[1]

Noun

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dominant m animal

  1. (biology) dominant (species or organism that is dominant)
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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dominant f

  1. genitive plural of dominanta

References

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  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “dominant”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN

Further reading

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  • dominant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • dominant in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • dominant in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French dominant.

Adjective

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dominant m or n (feminine singular dominantă, masculine plural dominanți, feminine and neuter plural dominante)

  1. dominant

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Swedish

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Adjective

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dominant (comparative dominantare, superlative dominantast)

  1. dominant
  2. (biology, genetics) dominant
    Antonym: recessiv
  3. (of a hand, etc.) dominant
  4. (BDSM) dominant
    Antonym: undergiven

Declension

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Inflection of dominant
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular dominant dominantare dominantast
Neuter singular dominant dominantare dominantast
Plural dominanta dominantare dominantast
Masculine plural3 dominante dominantare dominantast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 dominante dominantare dominantaste
All dominanta dominantare dominantaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

Noun

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dominant c

  1. (rare) a dominating person
  2. (music) a dominant

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From French dominante.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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dominant

  1. dominant
    Synonym: baskın

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